I'm just saying that if it's the only thing that stands out to someone who doesn't mess with miniatures, it must be pretty bad.

You really need to get rid of that extra plastic and flash on the front next to the treads. There's also big chunks on the top near the treads. You can take a file or knife to it and get rid of it, but it really makes the difference between a nice looking model and painted pieces of plastic glued together.

OneEye589 wrote: even though I've never put a model together in my life.

So stfu.

I've painted a thing or two in my life, and I've got to agree. File it down and fill in the space with some Green Stuff to smooth it out.

I was just thinking "I wish I lived nearby so I could just drive over there and show you some painting tricks" but then I remembered I do live nearby. What I really should do is drive over there and scare your parents. "Oh yeah, I'm his internet friend, I saw the photos he was posting online and decided to drop by"

Natalya wrote:What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of how banned you are.

stubby wrote:I was just thinking "I wish I lived nearby so I could just drive over there and show you some painting tricks" but then I remembered I do live nearby. What I really should do is drive over there and scare your parents. "Oh yeah, I'm his internet friend, I saw the photos he was posting online and decided to drop by"

IVhorseman wrote:I'm the Several Hundred Dollar Man!

Rayhawk wrote:"Give him the stick DON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK" was a major part of Knights Kingdom development.

That would be funny, but I would end up being grounded, whether they realized it was a joke or not. Yeah, I'm gonna do some paint touch-ups today and file down those sprue marks you're all having a hissy fit about.

Keldoclock wrote:Stubby- wear a short pink dress and keep telling his parents "hey my eyes are up here"

I was going to say, the pink dress thing doesn't work so well anymore for horrifying people, but then I remembered that RM's family lives forty years in the past. If he were living in 2012 with the rest of us, even fursuits don't cause the kind of horror they used to; I'd have to wear some kind of obvious giant diaper or something.

Natalya wrote:What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of how banned you are.

Seriously though, if there were nine things I would tell you to really focus on in order to improve your final look, the first three of them have to do with never, never globbing on the paint so thickly:

6. Practice drybrushing to highlight texture and edges.7. Practice using washes to emphasize form details.8. Practice thinning out the paint by different amounts to have more precise and even covering coats (and to save money on paint).9. And of course also clean up sprues and mold lines, like everybody's saying.

Natalya wrote:What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of how banned you are.